Axewomen keeper Grant hopes to play in World Cup
By John Decoste From King County News An Acadia soccer player is getting the chance to play on an international stage – and hopes to compete at the highest level. Taylor Grant, a second-year keeper with the Axewomen soccer team,…
Caribbean RoundUp From Caribbean Life
By Azad Ali Caribbean The United Nations says growth in the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will pick up pace in 2014 on an improved global outlook that will help increase demand for exports. The UN’s regional economic…
A new Fed study destroys one of the central tenets of monetary policy
By Matthew Boesler From Business Insider New research by Federal Reserve staff economists Steve Sharpe and Gustavo Suarez suggests that the outlook for business investment — a notably lacking aspect of this economic recovery — has little to do with…
Bulldozer crushes marine sleeping in foxhole
By Amanda Macias From Business Insider The details of how a 20-year-old Marine died during a training accident back in March were recently released by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, reports the Marine Corps Times. Private First Class Casey James…
Update: Body Found in the East End Area was a police officer
From RCIPS Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:31 PM East End death – Update The RCIPS can now confirm that the body found in the East End area yesterday, Sunday 12 January 2014, was that of a 45-year-old RCIPS officer. The…
Strong earthquake strikes north of Puerto Rico
(CNN) — A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit north of Puerto Rico just after midnight early Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The epicenter for the quake was in the Atlantic about 60 miles (96 km) northwest of San…
Cotton Tree makes Caribbean Journal’s “The Cool List 2014”
The only Cayman Islands hotel to make Caribbean Journal’s “The Cool List: The Caribbean’s Coolest Hotels For 2014” is Heather Lockington’s “Cotton Tree”. “The Cotton Tree isn’t like any other property in the Cayman Islands. The handful of plantation-style cottages…
The Editor Speaks: Internal police investigations
With the not unsurprising news that that Cayman Islands Commissioner of Police, David Baines, is to be the subject of an internal investigation, I have to ask is this fair? The commissioner reportedly rammed the getaway vehicle in which three…
NRA to undertake roads evaluation
The Cayman Islands National Roads Authority (NRA) have announced a launch of an International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) exercise, called “The next generation of road assessment”. “The Cayman Islands recorded nine (9) road traffic deaths in 2011, equivalent to approximately…
